Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 17:07:14 07/10/00
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On July 10, 2000 at 12:39:06, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 10, 2000 at 10:03:59, blass uri wrote: > >>I have a different opinion. >>I believe that computers have weaknesses and I do not want them to win humans so >>fast because I see from watching games of them that they do not understand some >>things that even I understand. >> >>I prefer to see programs get better before they win humans. Probably Amir has accomplished this task already, by incorporaring new chess knowledges to his latest version of Deep Junior, which he did not have the time to do it before the due date for his Commercial release package of Deep Junior. Pichard. >>I prefer to see humans win programs today because I believe that it can >>encourage programmers to improve their programs in order to win humans in the >>future. >> >>Good result for the programs against humans today is bad for the future of >>computer chess. > >I understand your viewpoint Uri, because your main interest is the chessgames >produced by human-computer contests and that is a genuine reason as far as I'm >concerned. > >Personally, I'm hoping that chess programs win as fast as possible to eliminate >them from future tournaments due to their immense strength. I know this will >remove the pleasure of staring into the Junior or Fritz GUI looking at the >evaluation, or shuffling through the Junior book, for many "wanna be" GM's that >maybe once failed miserably as chess players. Hopefully, this will happen soon, >so we can avoid moronic statements like "I smell blood". > >To persons, who feel offended reading the above paragraph, I will merely add >that it isn't recommendable being emotionally attached to a piece of software >that has more in common with Windows than a chess player. > >Best wishes... >Mogens
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